![]() ![]() Today, up-to-date information flows freely thanks to the Internet. "Because there is still a demand!" Tom Evans, World Book's editor-in-chief, told Ars over email. Yet it's the print version that mystifies and attracts my fascination. ![]() In a nod to our present digital age, World Book also offers its encyclopedia as a subscription service through the web. Its fiercest competitor of yore, The Encyclopedia Britannica, ended its print run in 2012 after 244 years in print. The company, a subsidiary of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, claims that its encyclopedia is "the only general reference encyclopedia still published today." My research seems to back up this claim, at least in English it's possibly true even for languages. ![]() first published an encyclopedia in 1917, and it has released a new edition almost every year since 1925. Further Reading Encyclopædia Britannica’s 2010 edition to be its lastīased in Chicago, World Book, Inc. ![]()
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